The Attitudes of Students, Teachers and Parents Toward Music Integration in the Elementary Classroom

The Attitudes of Students, Teachers and Parents Toward Music Integration in the Elementary Classroom
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The arts have been pushed aside in education with recent budget cuts and legislation requirements. Specifically, the emphasis placed on music integration has gone downhill. However, research shows that music has a valuable impact on student education and can increase student engagement, attitude, and memory retention. There are many different ways that music can be incorporated in the classroom, however many are unaware of how to accomplish this or how to make time for it. This study takes an in depth look at the attitudes and opinions of students, parents, and teachers toward music integration in the classroom. Through surveys and interviews, the public opinion was gathered and analyzed in order to discover how people feel toward music integration. Many believe that when used properly, music can make a significant difference in improving student education. They feel that more should be done to integrate music.

Integrating Music Into the Elementary Classroom

Integrating Music Into the Elementary Classroom
Author: William M. Anderson
Publisher: Schirmer
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Praised for its exceptional guidance in integrating music into other areas of the elementary curriculum, this comprehensive book is as appropriate for elementary teachers with limited musical experiences as it is for music specialists. The authors show teachers how to integrate music into their daily classroom curriculum through use of singing, playing instruments, listening, movement, creating music, studying music from a multicultural perspective, and relating music with the arts and other subject areas. They cover music fundamentals and provide materials and methods--including Orff, Kodály, and Dalcroze--for teaching music with confidence. This book contains planning guides that include model lesson plans and musical activities for children, plus more than 160 songs representing various historical periods and cultures. Important enhancements to this fourth edition include: more songs for K-2 children; greater coverage of technology, including CDs and videos; incorporation of the national standards for music education; greater attention to cultural diversity; and new photos and illustrations for enhanced musical learning.

Integrating Music Across the Elementary Curriculum

Integrating Music Across the Elementary Curriculum
Author: Kristin Harney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0190085584

"This book is designed to support K-5 classroom teachers as they integrate music throughout the elementary curriculum. It contains detailed, practical ideas and examples, including full lesson plans and over 100 teaching ideas and strategies for integrating music with visual art, language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics. Following an overview of the interdisciplinary approach, the remaining chapters explore connections between music and other areas of the elementary curriculum. Each chapter also includes a section addressing national standards with tables showing the specific standards that are included in each lesson and activity. This text utilizes the most recent National Core Arts Standards (2015) as well as the most recent standards in language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics. All the lessons in this book are designed to be fully taught by classroom teachers; the content is accessible to those who lack formal music training, yet is solidly rooted in research and best practices. While classroom teachers can teach these lessons on their own, this book may facilitate partnerships and collaboration between classroom teachers and music specialists. All the lessons and activities included in this text have been reviewed by practicing teachers and most have been field tested in elementary classrooms. Throughout the book, there is an emphasis on interdisciplinary lessons that demonstrate valid connections between disciplines while maintaining the integrity of each discipline involved. The text also includes a model that allows teachers to successfully create their own interdisciplinary lessons. Whole book keywords: music integration; curriculum design, curriculum integration, standards, interdisciplinary approach, music education, elementary education, collaboration Chapter 1: Overview of music integration in the elementary curriculum Chapter one serves as a brief introduction to music integration and includes definitions and a review of best practices. An overview of the 2015 National Core Arts Standards provides a foundation for the standards-based lessons that teachers will encounter throughout the remaining chapters of the book. There are growing calls to foster self-expression, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity in school settings and music integration is a path for developing these skills. The challenge for teachers involved in the integration process is to teach interdisciplinary lessons that make meaningful connections between disciplines and do not compromise the integrity of either discipline. The final section of chapter one focuses on strategies that allow teachers to create their own lessons that integrate music with other areas of the elementary curriculum"--

Integrating Music in the Elementary Classroom (Non-Media Version)

Integrating Music in the Elementary Classroom (Non-Media Version)
Author: William M. Anderson
Publisher: Schirmer Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780495095736

The market-leading text for the Elementary School Music Methods course, INTEGRATING MUSIC IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM was the first to emphasize the theme of integrating music throughout the school day. Anderson and Lawrence show future educators how to make music an effective part of the entire elementary curriculum. The text introduces the songs, instruments, sources of age-appropriate music, and methods of making music in a multicultural environment--making the text perfect for students with no prior knowledge of the fundamentals of music. With easy-to-use techniques for teaching young children how to sing, play instruments, move to music, create music, listen to music, and understand music, this text relates music to all subject areas. Notably, the authors provide sample lesson plans for kindergarten through grade six, along with more than 150 songs from different cultures and historical periods.

The Social Studies Helper

The Social Studies Helper
Author: Denise Fawcett Facey
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2010-07-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607097524

Based on the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy, The Social Studies Helper easily integrates technology into every core high school social studies course as well as two electives. These creative assignments are designed to appeal to visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles as the students are immersed in research, role-playing, art, etc. This is the resource book that you will turn to again and again throughout the school year. The Social Studies Helper is all the help you'll need, with innovative activities and projects, along with their rubrics and handouts, that are ready for use.

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Author: Joyce L. Epstein
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2018-07-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483320014

Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

When Music Goes to School

When Music Goes to School
Author: Danette Littleton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2015-09-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1475813368

Experts in child psychology and pedagogy concur that how children are schooled today seriously conflicts with how they learn and develop. Children are being left behind and the promises and possibilities of childhood are slipping away. This book aims to disclose a deeper understanding of music’s importance in children’s lives and their need to know, explore, wonder, and play. Directed toward music teachers, teacher educators, and scholars, this text invites inquiries and provides insights into contemporary challenges to learning and teaching in an era of standardization. A compendium of essays, classroom voices and vignettes is supported by relevant research in music education and companion disciplines in psychology, philosophy, and sociology. Storytelling with scholarship contributes authenticity and strengthens the premise of this book.

Music and Social Justice

Music and Social Justice
Author: Cathy Benedict
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190062142

In this book author Cathy Benedict challenges and reframes traditional ways of addressing many of the topics we have come to think of as social justice. Offering practical suggestions for helping both teachers and students think philosophically (and thus critically) about the world around them, each chapter engages with important themes through music making and learning as it presents scenarios, examples of dialogue with students, unit ideas and lesson plans geared toward elementary students (ages 6-14). Taken-for-granted subjects often considered beyond the understanding of elementary students such as friendship, racism, poverty, religion, and class are addressed and interrogated in such a way that honours the voice and critical thinking of the elementary student. Suggestions are given that help both teachers and students to pause, reflect and redirect dialogue with questions that uncover bias, misinformation and misunderstandings that too often stand in the way of coming to know and embracing difference. Guiding questions, which anchor many curricular mandates, are used throughout in order to scaffold critical and reflective thinking beginning in the earliest grades of elementary music education. Where does social justice reside? Whose voice is being heard and whose is being silenced? How do we come to think of and construct poverty? How is it that musics become used the way they are used? What happens to songs initially intended for socially driven purposes when their significance is undermined? These questions and more are explored encouraging music teachers to embrace a path toward socially just engagements at the elementary and middle school levels.